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4590 | If causation is just regularities in events, the interaction of mind and body is not a special problem [Heil] |
Full Idea: If causal relations boil down to nothing more than regularities (as Hume suggests), then it is a mistake to regard the absence of a mechanism or causal link between mental events and material events as a special problem. | |
From: John Heil (Philosophy of Mind [1998], Ch.2) | |
A reaction: So critics of Descartes who were baffled by interaction, were actually sniffing Hume's wholesale scepticism about necessary causation. Even so, physical conjunction is more tangible than spiritual conjunction. |